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MUFG

Vice President, IAM Governance Manager

On site

London, United kingdom

Senior

Full Time

27-01-2026

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Skills

Monitoring Test Organization SDLC

Job Specifications

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with approximately 350 years of history, MUFG is a global network with around 2,300 offices in over 50 countries including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania, and East Asia. The group has over 150,000 employees, offering services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing.

As one of the top financial groups globally with a vision to be the world's most trusted, we want to attract, nurture and retain the most talented individuals in the market. The size and range of MUFG's global business creates opportunities for our employees to stretch themselves and reap the rewards, whilst our common values, to behave with integrity and responsibility, and to build a culture which is fair, transparent, and honest, underpin everything that we do. We aim to be the financial partner of choice for our clients, whatever their requirements, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

Please visit our website for more information - mufgemea.com.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

4-5

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

This is a critical role to provide oversight of risks and controls relating to Identity and Access Management (IAM). We are embarking on a multi-year uplift of our IAM processes and controls, this role forms a key part of both our remediation plans during and post-remediation to provide oversight and monitoring of IAM controls to ensure effective operation in line with regulatory and audit expectations. The role will deliver reporting, governance and escalation over all aspects of identity and access management ensuing that all participants are adhering to controls and standards in the IAM lifecycle. A key aspect of this will be the oversight of implementation and operation of the Toxic Combination framework. Reporting to the Head of Technology Risk Governance you will play a key and highly visible role in the management of IAM risks across the MUFG business.

Key Responsibilities

Working with the Identity and Access Management team to help define key controls for the IAM function. Ensuring that controls are effectively designed to mitigate IAM risks as well as ensuring they meet the requirements for internal and external audit as well as other regulatory initiatives and group standards.
Developing Key Control Indicators, Key Risk Indicators and continuous control monitoring strategies to assess the performance of key controls.
Developing a testing strategy to formally test key IAM controls.
Work with IAM team to develop remediation strategies and monitor this remediation for effectiveness
Co-ordinating and overseeing the Toxic Combination framework. Ensuring full participation from business and technology stakeholders. Managing the violations process to ensure any identified toxic combinations are managed and escalated.
Co-ordinating IAM Governance meeting to transparently report the performance of IAM processes and controls and to provide escalation where controls are not being adhered and where any potential violations need to approved
Being the point of contact to ensure IAM risks are addressed via the SDLC process.
Engaging with both internal and external audit in relation to identity and access management risk and controls.

Work Experience

Experience in Identity and Access Management, preferably in financial services sector
Experience in delivering multi-year remediation Identity and Access Management programs
Experience working with the business stakeholders to define a Toxic Combination framework
Very strong understanding of internal, external audit expectations and SOX requirements
Very strong understanding of Identity and Access Management processes and controls including external audit and SOX requirements
Good knowledge of control frameworks such as NIST, CRI, DORA, SOX.
Good understanding of investment banking business processes and applications to allow credible engagement with application owners and business ow

About the Company

MUFG (Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group) is one of the world's leading financial groups. Headquartered in Tokyo and with over 360 years of history, MUFG has a global network with over 2,100 locations in more than 40 markets including the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia and Oceania. The Group has over 120,000 employees and offers services including commercial banking, trust banking, securities, credit cards, consumer finance, asset management, and leasing. Through close partnerships among our group companies, ... Know more